mystery fiction

When farm boy Homer Pudding's explorer-uncle dies and leaves him a droopy dog with a mysterious coin hidden on its collar, it leads him to The City, where they meet Madame La Directeur, the conniving head of the Natural History Museum, who is trying to steal the coin and take Homer's place in a secret society of adventurers.

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg, finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.

Four seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in a deep and ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that exposes them to great danger.

A vacation home possibility turns into an adventure involving vampires and of course, Count Dracula.

When one of her fellow Ladies-in-Waiting becomes mysteriously ill, Lady Grace Cavendish suspects the cause is poison and sets out to learn who is responsible.

A collection of logic puzzles, codes, anagrams, number puzzles, and whodunits that features detective Sherlock Holmes and his friends and colleagues. Includes an answer key.

Sheriff Bo Tully is called in to investigate the disappearance of Mike Wilson, owner of West Branch Lodge; but when Mike's body turns up in the river a few days later, Tully is saddled with a lodge full of suspects and an avalanche that was not exactly an accident of nature.

A collection of sixteen short detective stories by writers such as Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Dorothy L. Sayers.

Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

Presents a collection of eleven short mystery stories by a number of noted authors including Gail Carson Levine, Bruce Coville, Dian Curtis Regan, and others.